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Re: Stuck CPU core sensor??

Ouch, well you could RMA, but you may get another of the same or a worse overclocking chip... So all up to you.

Yeah, I may need to RMA the CPU. I really like to monitor temps....I think it's important.

I just ran the "test sensors" feature in real temp, and both came back 0 sensor movement.

So should I look into a different CPU if I RMA it? By the way, the regular "cpu temp" works fine, and fluctuates under load. Wouldn't this be fine as a temp monitoring for the CPU? I always thought the actual cores was the important temps to peek at.

Re: Stuck CPU core sensor??

If u have a good clocker don't bother with an RMA. You could end up wih a bad sensor again and a terrible clocker to boot!

The sensors are reasonably accurate under load.

At idle My E8500 reads 34C on core 0 and 42C on core 1. Under load they both read within a degree..... depending on the program. They've never been over 48C under full load and read the same.

Do what u will but I'd keep your current chip if it's just off at idle and clocks decently. I'd never give up this E8500 which I've just started tinkering with the last two days... has hit 4009mhz with very little tweaking or voltage.

Re: Stuck CPU core sensor??

If u have a good clocker don't bother with an RMA. You could end up wih a bad sensor again and a terrible clocker to boot!

The sensors are reasonably accurate under load.

At idle My E8500 reads 34C on core 0 and 42C on core 1. Under load they both read within a degree..... depending on the program. They've never been over 48C under full load and read the same.

Do what u will but I'd keep your current chip if it's just off at idle and clocks decently. I'd never give up this E8500 which I've just started tinkering with the last two days... has hit 4009mhz with very little tweaking or voltage.

I think I will just keep the CPU I have. I ran Orthos and I did see one of the cores jump from 39c to 40c several times. So I think the cores do work if the CPU gets warm enough.